The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1887-02-20
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THE PASSING HOUR.

Senator, sabin has been N New York doing Q
runy. He has also been tnlEing about Mrs;
Cleveland, and said: ~ am somewhat alarmed
and lovablc wife Is about TO make a Mlgwnmpof
my spouse. Mrs. Cleveland ts a splendid poiit,-
and " M nn, Ss SS the TsS
of his young wife carries the Adminis-
tration along with more, eclat and popularity
All the same, my state will give rousing Re-
publican majority In lsSs."
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Nine. B,rrios, who is now creating stir in
Washington, Is credited with three more children
correspondent oi the Mail aud Express alto.
gcthcr seven Bnrrios youngsters, ranging IRON
9I ST a FONT big s Ss% snss
He is properly Don Nntonio se'yado! de narrios,
but with that charming inforinalty characteristic
Pierre Joseph d'orlcans who was educated at the
Naval Academy. was simply Pete dOrlcans and
nSS"s ,%o next GrS S Ss no s %T S%S
although they live with her, and IL outward indi-
cations may bc accepted they are as one family,
The lady possesses one peculiar distinction IN
Washington. Upon the OCCASION Of her lust visit visit
ners tonr SeSrs; SgS wh ns iU @
salute, and II was the first time Tint salute had
ever been fired II this conntry for any Other per
larrios was then the ruler of Guatemala. Nine.
Barrios only wears few of her superb Jewels,
but her solitaire carriags look Ike electric M lights
children and servants. She expects to return to
New York this week. II is n curious thing In con:
Point that young zarnln, son OF. the man who
2yerthrew and caused INC dea,h % or rreslnen' als
so o "TG Ra ee Wo ", rons e ana
have nothing to say to each other.
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Thomas Nast's daughters appear to be uncoin
monty accomplished, II we orc to believe "Brnns
w% No TrSs tSs TO so"
lIorpcr's publications, lives over in Moristown
MI; and few days ago he gave luncheon, !,
Of this city. The luncheon was given at hi
Morristown home, and the artist who tod m, m,
aS29 y said hat hn ne Sr st bnv TO m1
TINT could be thought Of that was not on q,
table, md that everything was cooked in TIN
presided % at the head of the table, and two. cx
trcmcly pretty and attractive wuitrcsses In white
a a sas SS ans nsa rs
gave gay, them much more thought than they woul;
performed this Office. During the meal tn
guests from time to time expressed their deligh
ns Mr. Nast sa as Sey had bee cae
with the cooking. he would Introduce them e
the cook. They were prepared to see dear oi
but to their surprise Mr.. Must led most charm
ing young lady. who proved to he his daughtc,
Y h"d r"tten f mp this elaborate @ mea The artist
asked to have the mattresses brought IN too, fo
they felt pretty sure that they were Mr. Mast
the hostess. The urtists, however, nrc convince
that the ,lnmstakable likeness of the wnitrcssc
emScrs t" ths host st Ss Tsf sS that they also
The Bartholdi statue of Liberty is described a
towering to the skies above all known statue
Of the present and the past" and us the ea Grca
Eastern Of Amnch higher statue @ EXIST ~.
knowledge which has been obtained of thi
stat!ic-or statues, for there are more than one,
biologists; but we are now indebted to the Afgha
Boundary Commission for much more cOmplet
information than we have yet received % ! Thes The:
and Balkh at locality known as Bimian.
that place the road road passcs through valleys; wit wit
about the early centuries Of the Christian era tn
Buddhist. eexcavated numerous caves, as mona!
tsrics for themselves in the rock OF these VALLEY
by thousands. In addition to these, II number c
statues were carved out of the solid rock: two, Il
measured with the theodoite, so that we mo-
know the height within few inches. The mea
% nrement gays 4 as one i hnndrcd & ana LIS seve9t! f
inches h h than m the W Nelson column % in Trufaigr
Square, London, and nearly seventy feet hiEht
, dha is the real Great Eastern of statues and IL
celebrated Mennon statues of Egypt would II.
, come up to the knees of this mighty ikon. \
Bamian there is another figure of Buddha OF
hundred and twenty feet high. These are stan,
ing figures there is also sitting figure thirt
feet high. There are the remains of two 9th,
figures, but they are in ruinOus condition. M
one of them is estimated to have been about fift
, or sixty feet high; these statues were; we kno,
!, originally either gilt or covered with meta
Hiouen rhsang, the Chinese pilgrim, passed Il
spot in the first half of the seventh century
D., and from him we have II description of
least the two larger figures they existed at tn
, date. These statues have, of course, suffered
time Armies have often passed by the ,roa
' Ghengis Khnns and Timur-lungs hosts did s
but they had only bows and arrows to throw
: the idols. In later times Mohammedan soldie
I have passed with artillery, and in their hatred
'bhuts," or idols, they. fired solid shot; but Z
: idols have, thanks to their great size, stood tn
treatment very fairly, and in spite OF it the tr,
character of the figures, as well as the nrt sty
to which they belong, is still preserved